Title: CSS code in dashboard
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CSS code in dashboard

 *  [tshirtfiend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tshirtfiend/)
 * (@tshirtfiend)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/)
 * My working on the theme for my company’s blog. It’s a custom theme, and is working
   pretty well except the CSS (from style.css) show up on the dashboard when I go
   to Manage>Design. I think it’s a typo in the code, but I’ve re-typed it dozens
   of times, and even copied directly from the WP doc on writing themes. What am
   I missing?
 * Here’s a direct link to the style sheet: [Here](http://alphabetarm.com/thebloggery/wp-content/themes/abc-style/style.css)
 * And here’s the first few lines:
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: ABC style
       Theme URI: http://www.alphabetarm.com/thebloggery/
       Description: Alphabet Arm News theme
       Author: ABC (Ira)
       Author URI: http://www.alphabetarm.com
       Version: 1.0
       .
       ABC's custom WordPress theme.
       .
       */
   
       /*  GLOBAL  */
   
       * {
       	margin: 0;
       	padding: 0;
       }
   
       …
       ```
   

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797161)
 * You can only have **one** stylesheet with this theme information comment in it
   per theme, and this comment needs to be unique for every theme. I once left this
   comment from my theme’s style.css in a new print.css file, and I had weird css
   pop up in the Dashboard.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797162)
 * Also, get rid of this:
 * > .
   >  ABC’s custom WordPress theme. .
 *  Thread Starter [tshirtfiend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tshirtfiend/)
 * (@tshirtfiend)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797174)
 * I’m not quite sure what you mean. I don’t have CSS files for any other media 
   yet, so this comment is definitely unique to style.css. Are you talking about
   something else?
 *     ```
       .
       ABC's custom WordPress theme.
       .
       ```
   
 * Above deleted. Didn’t solve it.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797177)
 * Duplicate theme info comments in multiple stylesheets was merely one possible
   cause of this. I did fine one error in your stylesheet, but it wouldn’t cause
   your dashboard problems:
 * margin-bottom**s**
 *  Thread Starter [tshirtfiend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tshirtfiend/)
 * (@tshirtfiend)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797187)
 * Oops. Thanks. Fixed.
 *  [tydende](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tydende/)
 * (@tydende)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797399)
 * tshirtfriend,
 * did you ever figure out the cause of this? i’m having the same problem.
 *  [tydende](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tydende/)
 * (@tydende)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797400)
 * I got it fixed. Had a few css errors, checked the code at
    [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)
 * and once errors were fixed, dashboard displays correctly
 *  [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * (@saurus)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797401)
 * Which should have been the **first** step – VERIFY YOUR CSS AND MARKUP – then
   if there is still a problem search the codex for a similar question, and if not
   create a new question.
 *  [tydende](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tydende/)
 * (@tydende)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-code-in-dashboard/#post-797402)
 * Indeed. Which i had done, and now the it is doing the same (code on the dashboard)
   despite the validator showing that there are no errors.
 * It was displaying correctly, and then without me touching the stylesheet, the
   problem returned.
 * The stylesheet I’m working with is [http://www.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/themes/elephant/style.css](http://www.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/themes/elephant/style.css)

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